Πέδαι

fetters, shackles

Translated by David Porter21 Nov 2011Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 27 words
[Meaning] bindings.1
[sc. The word comes] from pou=s ["foot"] and de/w ["I bind"], the [verb meaning] I tie together: or from weighing down [pie/zein] the feet [po/das].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πέδαι· δεσμά. παρὰ τὸ ποῦς καὶ τὸ δέω, τὸ δεσμεύω· ἢ παρὰ τὸ πιέζειν τοὺς πόδας.

Betacode
*pe/dai: desma/. para\ to\ pou=s kai\ to\ de/w, to\ desmeu/w: h)\ para\ to\ pie/zein tou\s po/das.

Notes (2)

  1. The headword, a feminine nominative plural, is either extracted from somewhere in this grammatical form or else (and more probably: see next note) generated by an instance of the accusative plural in Homer.
  2. 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica (references at Photius pi509 Theodoridis), and see also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 13.36, where the phrase pe/das ... xrusei/as occurs. ↩
  3. 2cf. Etymologicum Magnum 658.18. ↩

Neighbouring entries

π899ΠαιφάσσωI dart about, I rush aboutπ900Πεδαρσίουair-borneπ901Πέδαιfetters, shacklesπ902ΠεδῆταιCaptives, Fettered-Menπ903ΠεδιεύςPedieus, plainsman
Revision history4 revisions · last 22 May 2016
  1. coding — David Whitehead
  2. tweaked notes; raised status — David Whitehead
  3. notes; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Porter

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